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Database and information-retrieval methods for knowledge discovery

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Comprehensive knowledge bases would tap the Web's deepest information sources and relationships to address questions beyond today's keyword-based search engines.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 4
A Direct Path to Dependable Software
April 2009
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DOI:10.1145/1498765
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